Lawrence Davidson
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Born | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | June 21, 1945
Education | B.A. Rutgers University M.A. Georgetown University Ph.D. University of Alberta |
Occupation | Author, Columnist, Editor, Professor |
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Lawrence Davidson is a retired professor of history from West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania.[1][non-primary source needed] He is the author of Islamic Fundamentalism, Cultural Genocide and has focused his academic research on American foreign relations with the Middle East.
Early life and education[]
Davidson was born to a secular Jewish household in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1945. He attended Rutgers University from 1963–1967, where he earned a bachelor's degree in history. While attending Rutgers, Davidson developed a leftist perspective regarding the problems facing the US in the 1960s.[citation needed]
In 1967, Davidson was accepted into Georgetown University Master's program where he studied modern European intellectual history under Palestinian expatriate professor Hisham Sharabi.[citation needed] During his time at Georgetown (1969–1970), Davidson became one of the founding members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at Georgetown at the height of the Vietnam War.[2][non-primary source needed][unreliable source?]
In 1970, with the breakup of the SDS, Davidson left the United States for Canada.[3] He spent the next six years at the University of Alberta in Edmonton where he earned a PhD (1976) in modern European Intellectual history.[4][5]
After returning to the United States in the mid 1970s, Davidson spent several years as an adjunct instructor at various colleges and universities, as well as working for a time as a middle manager at Alexian Brothers Health Systems Catholic hospital in St. Louis.[citation needed] Subsequently, he was contracted to write the history of Alexian Brothers’ oldest hospital. This led to his first book, The Alexian Brothers of Chicago (1990).[6][non-primary source needed]
In 1989, Davidson joined the faculty of history at West Chester University as a tenure track professor where he taught Middle East history, the history of science, and modern European intellectual history.[7][unreliable source?] He retired from WCU in May 2013.[8]
Currently, Davidson writes for his Blog " To The Point Analyses" and is a contributing editor for Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture.[9] Davidson is a board member of the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, alongside Hamid Dabashi, Ilan Pappé, Michel Shehadeh, and honorary advisory board member Desmond Tutu.[10]
Cultural Genocide (2012)[]
In 2012, Rutgers University Press published Davidson's book Cultural Genocide. Davidson defines cultural genocide as the "purposeful destructive targeting of out-group cultures so as to destroy or weaken them in the process of conquest or domination".[11][non-primary source needed]
Books[]
- Davidson, Lawrence. The Alexian Brothers of Chicago: An Evolutionary Look at the Monastery and Modern Health Care. New York: Vantage Press, 1990.
- Davidson, Lawrence. Islamic Fundamentalism. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998.
- Davidson, Lawrence. America's Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood. Gainesville, FL: U of Florida, 2001.
- Davidson, Lawrence. Foreign Policy, Inc.: Privatizing America's National Interest. Lexington: U of Kentucky, 2009.
- Goldschmidt, Arthur, Lawrence Davidson, and Tom Weiner. A Concise History of the Middle East. Boulder, CO. : Westview Press, 2002.
- Davidson, Lawrence. Cultural Genocide. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2012.
References[]
- ^ "What Drives US Policy Toward Israel?". CounterPunch. 31 March 2016.
- ^ Davidson, Lawrence. 1967. [Georgetown University Students for a Democratic Society papers].
- ^ "Converging Fears". Facts and Arts. 2015-12-19. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
- ^ "Dr. Larry Davidson". omeka.binghamton.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
- ^ "Lawrence Davidson". Facts and Arts. 2014-05-22. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
- ^ "Alexian Brothers of the Immaculate Conception Province | Alexian Brothers of the Immaculate Conception Province".
- ^ "Professor Lawrence Davidson Discusses Egypt, the U.S., and Israel". 11 February 2011.
- ^ "Retired Faculty - West Chester University".
- ^ "Editorial Staff Logos Journal".
- ^ "Advisory Board". 3 February 2009.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-07-15. Retrieved 2016-06-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
External links[]
- To The Point Analyses
- Consortium News
- Logos Journal
- Interview with Larry Davidson by Stephen McKiernan, Binghamton University Libraries Center for the Study of the 1960s
- 1945 births
- Living people
- American male non-fiction writers
- American political writers
- Genocide
- Georgetown University alumni
- Historians of the Middle East
- Islam and politics
- Middle Eastern studies in the United States
- Rutgers University alumni
- University of Alberta alumni
- West Chester University faculty